Ali Budner

If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, call 1-800-273-TALK (8255).  The House just passed a bill to create a 9-1-1 type service nationwide for suicide prevention.

A new study out of Colorado State University shows that disease-bearing ticks are more widespread than previously thought, but the Mountain West is still relatively safe.

Four U.S. Senators are objecting to a program that teaches TV weathercasters about the science of climate change.

Hundreds of veterans are calling on Congress to scrap a seemingly unrelated attachment to this year’s defense spending bill.

Record-breaking temperatures are scorching the United States with parts of our region seeing all-time highs. A number of heat-related deaths are already being reported in the U.S.

Fires are burning in Colorado, Utah and there’s fire danger in other parts of the Mountain West. Now three U.S.

You may not have heard of PILT payments, but they’re pretty important for local economies in areas like the Mountain West.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is nothing fancy when you first drive in. No towering cliffs or dramatic canyons.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may seem like an unlikely champion for an illegal substance, but the Kentucky Republican just added the legalization of marijuana’s non-psychoactive cousin, hemp, to the Senate […]

This month, Colorado became the first state in the nation to allow school nurses to administer medical marijuana to students. But not all nurses may be on board.

It’s officially Hemp History Week. The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution that recognizes the “full growth potential of the industrial hemp industry.”

Protests and blockades of clinics that perform abortions are up dramatically around the nation, including Colorado, the first state in the union to pass a law legalizing abortion more than […]

Colorado will be the first state in the country to test out so-called “smart pavement” on a stretch of highway this year.

An article published in the journal, Nature, this month explains how a 130 million year old fossilized skull is shaking up scientists’ understanding of how and when the earth’s continents […]

Fire experts say this season could be big for wildfires in our region.

The Senate Intelligence Committee released a bipartisan report on Tuesday confirming that Russians hacked U.S. elections in 2016. It outlined what states could do better.